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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
turned away, "strange to think that even in Our
Ford's day most games were played without more
apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and
perhaps a bit of netting. imagine the folly of allowing
people to play elaborate games which do nothing
whatever to increase consumption. It's madness.
Nowadays the Controllers won't approve of any new
game unless it can be shown that it requires at least
as much apparatus as the most complicated of
existing games." He interrupted himself.
"That's a charming little group," he said,
pointing.
In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of
Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of
about seven and a little girl who might have been a
year older, were playing, very gravely and with all
the focussed attention of scientists intent on a
labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.
"Charming, charming!" the D.H.C. repeated
sentimentally.
"Charming," the boys politely agreed. But
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